14. ELEOTRIS. 131 



ments. The height of the body is one-seventh or one-eightli of the 

 total length ; the width of the interorbital space is much less than 

 that of the orbit. Jaws equal anteriorly ; teeth in single series, of 

 unequal size. Greenish rose-coloured : sides of the head with blue, 

 darker-edged ocelli ; sometimes a violet spot before the anterior 

 dorsal fin. The anterior dorsal black at the top, the posterior with 

 six violet longitudinal stripes, the anal with two ; caudal with pearl- 

 coloured, violet-edged ocelli. 

 Coasts of Ceylon. East Indian Archipelago. 



46. Eleotris strigata. 



Eleotris strigata, Cnv. Sf Val. xii. p. 251 ; Bteek. Act. Soc. Sc. Iiiclu- 



Nederl. i., Amhoina, p. 48. 

 Valencieunea strigata, Bleck. Boeroe, p. 412. 

 Eleotriodes strigata, Bleek. Goram, p. 212. 



B.5. D.6|^. A.^^, 



Scales very small. The second and third dorsal spines produced 

 into filaments. The height of the body is contained six times in the 

 total length, the length" of the head four times and a half or four 

 times and three-fit'ths ; the width of the interorbital space is less 

 than that of the orbit. Jaws equal anteriorly ; teeth in single series, 

 of unequal size. Greenish i-ose-coloured, with foiu- or five red lon- 

 gitudinal bands ; a pearl- coloured, black-edged band from the angle 

 of the mouth to the extremity of the operculum ; an oblique similar 

 band on the praeoijerculura, and another on the suboperculum. The 

 anterior dorsal fin with one, the posterior with three red longitudinal 

 bands. 



Coasts of Java, Amboyna, Celebes, Booroo, and Otaheite. 



a. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



3. Some of the caudal rays produced into filameuts : 

 Eleotriodes (part.), Bleek. 



47. Eleotris helsdingenii 



Eleotriodes helsdingenii, Bleek. Goram, p. 212. 

 D. eU. A.Jj. L. lat. 130. 



The two caudal rays, which are nearest to the three middle ones, 

 are produced into long filaments. Head naked. The height of the 

 body is one-seventh of the total length (without caudal filaments). 

 The width of the interorbital space is less, the length of the snout 

 more, than the diameter of the eye. The maxillary extends to below 

 the middle of the orbit. Teeth in the upper jaw in a single series, 

 of unequal size. The anterior dorsal fin is lower than the body. 

 Greenish rose-coloured, with two brown bands from the snout to the 

 caudal filaments. {Bl.) 



Sea of Goram . 



